Year 2, Day 220: No Ipod

After a few days of carousing, I needed to get back to the gym. I have noted that following any kind of celebration, the workout is much harder. Without a doubt, today's workout was made the most hard by the fact that my headphones did not work, and so I was not only without music, but without the television sound that is now standard on all the ellipse machines. I was desperately trying everything to make them work as I started my workout, but to no avail. My only option was to go back to my car and get my wallet and buy a pair of headphones for $5 (a new service the JCC offers for the TVs that I have already noted are part of ALL the machines). Since I was already in there, signed on to a machine, actually racking up the calories/time/miles, I decided to just try and make it without music. WOW, that's really challenging. By using a combination of the closed-captioned version of VH-1's, the "40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes" and the sound-less verions of "Back to the Future II" on the ellipse machine's TV, I made it through. But it was very difficult. I had a hard time staying on pace, and after 20 minutes I was behind on my usual 10 minute mile. I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the last 10 minutes, but I did, 6 miles at just barely over 60 minutes. There was an additional cool-down period, to which I said "f**k that."

Breakfast
Kashi
Banana
Blueberry
Coffeee

Lunch
Chicken Breast
Romaiaine/Red Leaf
Feta Cheese
Orange Pepper
Balsamic Vinegar


Post-Workout Snack
6 oz Plain Yogurt
3 Tblspns Super Chunky Peanut Butter
1/2 oz Boston Lite Popcorn

Dinner
3 Egg Omlette with Swiss Cheese
3.5 Strips of Turkey Bacon

I must credit Dr. Banjaree, my college geography teacher, with helping instill in me the ability to withstand incredibly boring periods of my life. In order to finally graduate college (which took me five years of school, spread out over seven years of people time) I had to attend summer courses, which were geared for shorter cycles (summer sessions were five weeks) and so naturally the classes were much longer. This was a three hour lectuure on geography, which I thought would be an exciting class, except when taught by a inhibited, low-talking, charisma-starved teacher who essentially sucked all the life of out of the room and simultaneously made it warmer everytime she began her lesson. To try and stay focused for three hours was already very difficult for me, but to pay attention to someone who intrinsicly understood that she was barely worth paying attention TO was nearly impossible. The clock hands seemed to torture me as they barely moved, and they made loud sounds in my head when they did. From this experience I learned not to loAfter a few days of carousing, I needed to get back to the gym. I have noted that following any kind of celebration, the workout is much harder. Without a doubt, today's workout was made the most hard by the fact that my headphones did not work, and so I was not only without music, but without the television sound that is now standard on all the ellipse machines. I was desperately trying everything to make them work as I started my workout, but to no avail. My only option was to go back to my car and get my wallet and buy a pair of headphones for $5 (a new service the JCC offers for the TVs that I have already noted are part of ALL the machines). Since I was already in there, signed on to a machine, actually racking up the calories/time/miles, I decided to just try and make it without music. WOW, that's really challenging. By using a combination of the closed-captioned version of VH-1's, the "40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes" and the sound-less verions of "Back to the Future II" on the ellipse machine's TV, I made it through. But it was very difficult. I had a hard time staying on pace, and after 20 minutes I was behind on my usual 10 minute mile. I wasn't sure I was going to make it through the last 10 minutes, but I did, 6 miles at just barely over 60 minutes. There was an additional cool-down period, to which I said "f**k that."

Breakfast
Kashi
Banana
Blueberry
Coffee

Lunch
Chicken Breast
Romaiaine/Red Leaf
Feta Cheese
Orange Pepper
Balsamic Vinegar


Post-Workout Snack
6 oz Plain Yogurt
3 Tblspns Super Chunky Peanut Butter
1/2 oz Boston Lite Popcorn

Dinner
3 Egg Omelet with Swiss Cheese
3.5 Strips of Turkey Bacon

I must credit Dr. Banjaree, my college geography teacher, with helping instill in me the ability to withstand incredibly boring periods of my life. In order to finally graduate college (which took me five years of school, spread out over seven years of people time) I had to attend summer courses, which were geared for shorter cycles (summer sessions were five weeks) and so naturally the classes were much longer. This was a three hour lecture on geography, which I thought would be an exciting class, except when taught by a inhibited, low-talking, charisma-starved teacher who essentially sucked all the life of out of the room and simultaneously made it warmer everytime she began her lesson. To try and stay focused for three hours was already very difficult for me, but to pay attention to someone who intrinsically understood that she was barely worth paying attention TO was nearly impossible. The clock hands seemed to torture me as they barely moved, and they made loud sounds in my head when they did. From this experience I learned not to look at the clock, because it becomes your enemy. I began to bring my textbook and read it just so I wouldn't be tempted to do something that would lead to my failing a test. I thought it could never get any worse, until I took geology the following semester. If I thought borders and rivers in detail were boring, I had no idea how boring micah schist could be in the lab setting. Is it any wonder I didn't go to graduate school?ok at the clock, because it becomes your enemy. I began to bring my textbook and read it just so I wouldn't be tempted to do something that would lead to my failing a test. I thought it could never get any worse, until I took geology the following semester. If I thought borders and rivers in detail were boring, I had no idea how boring micha schist could be in the lab setting. Is it any wonder I didn't go to graduate school?